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As an "arcade comedy" I must admit I found Mermaid Madness as amusing as a smack in the kisser with a cold kipper. Okay, I did bare my teeth at one stage - I had to grit them to keep on playing.

Myrte the Mermaid is looking for love in her ocean world. Gormless Gordon, a diver, has become the love of her life, but the passion is not returned.

The game starts with Gordon leaping into the sea. He swims off under a wreck to hide and goes to sleep. Myrtle has to rescue him from his potential underwater tomb and so embarks on a fairly straightforward, maze-style arcade adventure.

The graphics are colourful, the characters are cartoon-style - Myrtle herself in big, yellow and wobbles a lot. So if fat ladies - or in this case mermaids - make you smile, then Mermaid Madness could be just what you're waiting for.